Shôhei Imamura – Muhomatsu kokyo e kaeru AKA Muhomatsu Returns Home (1973)
From the BFI website:
Television documentary featuring interviews with Japanese soldiers after the Second World War.
Quote:
“In Search of Unreturned Soldiers was about former soldiers of the Japanese army who chose not to return to Japan after the war. I found several of them who had remained in Thailand. Two years later, I invited one of them to make his first return visit to Japan and documented it in Muhomatsu Returns Home. During the filming, my subject Fujita asked me to buy him a cleaver so that he could kill his ‘vicious brother.’ I was shocked, and asked him to wait a day so that I could plan how to film the scene. By the next morning, to my relief, Fujita had calmed down and changed his mind about killing his brother. But I couldn’t have had a sharper insight into the ethical questions provoked by this kind of documentary filmmaking.” —Shôhei Imamura
http://nitroflare.com/view/69728A5FAEC64A1/Muhomatsu_Returns_Home_%281973%29.mkv
http://www.nitroflare.com/view/BB36B28BC22DD6D/Muhomatsu_Returns_Home_%281973%29.srt
Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English